Since being launched into space in 2009, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has helped us identify over 1,000 exoplanets, along with several thousand other candidate planet — all in the hopes of finding a new planet that is potentially habitable to humans, or perhaps once was or currently is home to extraterrestrial life. Though the telescope ran into problems last month and caused a bit of a scare here on Earth, NASA engineers pulled out all the stops and managed to rescue Kepler from the void and bring it back to full functionality.
Perhaps not to be outdone by findings collected by the little Chilean TRAPPIST telescope that could, NASA is hosting a news conference on Tuesday to announce a new discovery made through Kepler.
The teleconference briefing is short on details, so its really anyone’s guess what we might be learning on Tuesday morning. Here are five wild guesses as to what NASA’s announcement is all about.
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